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' J. MACPHAIL.

HORSB'HAY BAKE.

No. 470,300. Patented Mar. 8.1892.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MAoPHAIL, oEEooIIEoED, ILLINOIS.

HORSE HAY-RAKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 470,300, dated March 8, 1892.

Application filed .Tuly 20, 1889. Serial No. 318,175. (No model.) 2

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES MACPHAIL, acitzen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Vinnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse Hay-Rakes, of which the following is a specification.

The principal objects of this invention are to provide convenient and effective means of tilting the rake-teeth to pass obstructions while the rake is in operation and to dump the hay raked thereby at desired intervals into windrows.

This invention consists of certain new and useful'features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan View of a rake provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the rake with the wheels removed, in which the tilting movement of the teeth and the movements of the parts producing the same are indicated by dotted lines. Fig. Sis'a like view of the same,in which the dumping movelment of the rake and operation of the parts producing and participating in the same are indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the tilting-lever and segment-rack. Fig. 5 is a plan View of the dumping-lever and connecting-link. Figs. 6 and 7 are detailed views of a hinge-block, showing the connection therewith ofthe connecting-link. Fig. 8 is a view of a vertical section at the dotted line X X of Fig. lof the hinge connection between the head and frame of the rake. Fig. 9 is a front elevation of a component part of the latter.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

A is an axle-tree having wheels A mounted thereon in the usual manner.

A2 is a rocking rake-head rigidly connected with the axletree A.

A3 are rake-teeth of the usual form, and are attached to the rake-head A2 by means of the holders A4 or 'in any other suitable Inanner.

B is the discharge-head of the rake, which is suspended from the seat thereof by means of rods Bwhich are pivotally connected at their upper ends with lugs B2, depending from the seat and rigidly secured at their lower ends to the discharge-head.

B3 are discharge-teeth setinto the dischargehead B, which serve to discharge a raking of hay from the teeth A3 at each dumping of the rake.

C is the rake-frame, which is hinge-jointed to the rake-head A2 by means of parts to be described hereinafter.

C is the seat-standard, fast at the lower end to the rake-frame C and provided at the upper end with a seat C2.

D is a hinge-block secured to the rake-frame C by means of a bolt D.

E is a hinge-plate provided with two pintles E', integral therewith and bolted to the rakehead A2.

E2 is hook engaging with the pintles E of the hinge-plate E and bolted to the rakeframe C.

E3 is a binding-plate having a curved depression E4 in one end thereof to admit a portion of the pintles E. i

E5 E6 are a washer and bolt for securing the l binding-plate E3 to the hook E2. The washer E5 may be integral with the binding-plate E3, ifdesired. The heads of the bolts Eaud the washers E5 serve as stops for the hinge-plates E and rake-head A2 when the rake is dumped.

F is a tilting-lever secured by one end thereof to the rake-head A2 and provided with a detent F', actuated by a spring F2.

F3 is a-detent-lever for disengaging the detent F from its segmen t-rack, to be described.

G is a segment-rack pivotally mounted on the tilting-lever F and adapted to engage the detent F. The pivot G is preferably integral with the segment-rack G, and is retained in position in its bearing in the tilting-lever F-by means of alug G2, which passes through the slot F4 in the tilting-lever F at the same time the pivot G is inserted into its bearing.

H is a. dumping-lever pivotally connected by one end thereof with the segment-rack G through an eye G3 therein. H is a handle for operating the same.

I is a connecting-link, pivot-jointed at one end to the dumping-lever H at any suitable point, as at H2, between the ends thereof, and at the other end to the frame C by means. of the hinge-block D or in any other suitable manner.

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Obviously a reverse construction or arrangement of the segment-rack, tilting-lever, dumping-lever, and connecting-link might be resorted to without departing from the evident spirit and seope of my invention; also, the segment-rack might be pivoted to a lug or other device secured to the rake-head at additional expense, however, Without interfering with the successful operation of the rake or departing from the clear purview of my invention.

In order to tilt the rake-teeth to pass obstructions or to prevent the same from corning in Contact With the earth While the rake is moving, but not in operation, the operator, reaching down from the seat, gra-sps the tilting-lever F and detent-lever F3, and after releasing the detent lifts the tilting-lever F, as and with the results indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. To dump the rake, the operator grasps the handle II and lifts it, as and with the results indicated bythe dotted lines in Fig. 3.

I claiml. In combination, a tilting-lever secured z5 by one end thereof to the rake-head and provided with a spring-actuated detent, a segment-rack pivotally mounted on the tiltinglever and adapted to engage the detent, a dumping-lever pivotallyconneeted by one end 3o thereof with the segment-rack, and a connecting-link pivot-jointed at one end to the dumping-lever at any suitable point between the ends thereof and at the other end to the frame of the rake, substantially as and for 35 the purpose specified.

2. In combina-tion, the hinge-plate E, provided with pintles E', the connecting-hook E2, the binding-plate E3, and suitable means for securing said parts operatively together, sub- 4o stantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JAMES MACPHAIL.

IVitiiesses:

L. L. MORRISON, E. F. BOWLING. 

